Radioactive waste management at the A-1 nuclear power plant after its decommissioning

The present state of the radioactive waste processing at the Bohunice A-1 nuclear power plant and the preparation of new technologies are reported, and prospects to the year 1995 for the waste formation from the decommissioning activities are outlined. Cementation and bituminization are the basic technologies which will be used for liquid radioactive waste processing. Special lines have been designed for the treatment of chrompik and dowtherm. According to kind, solid wastes will be pressed, remelted, incinerated or cemented. Liquid waste storage reservoirs are in no good state; new reservoirs and purification plants will therefore be built. A survey table showing the kinds of wastes at the A-1 nuclear power plant, their amounts and assumed formation, a table of existing and prepared technologies for radioactive waste treatment and the resulting volumes, an overview of the basic technologies of solid waste processing and a survey of rooms on the premises of the nuclear power plant where barrels with solidified wastes can be temporarily stored are given. (M.D.). 3 tabs